That is possible. As far as I can tell, referencing
Collections.EMPTY_LIST consumes as much resources as pointing to null.
Is there any reason we don't initialize delegates' lists to
Collections.EMPTY_LIST? I could contribute a patch if necessary, but
does this sound reasonable to everyone?
Gili
Eric Schneider wrote:
> Gili,
>
> Sounds like the object was never registered, or somehow it's
> persistence state is transient. Normally, toMany relationships will
> always return an empty List if there are no related objects.
>
> Eric
>
> On Sep 7, 2005, at 4:02 PM, Gili wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm expecting a toMany relationship to return an empty list if
>> empty and it seems to return null. Is this by design (I can't seem to
>> find it documented anywhere). Does this mean I have to check for both
>> null or an empty list everywhere in my code or is there an easier way?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Gili
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